Maintenance Manager
Cargill is a family company committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. We sit at the heart of the supply chain, partnering with producers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living. By providing customers with life’s essentials, we enable businesses to grow, communities to prosper, and consumers to live well.
This position is in our specialized portfolio enterprise where we serve diverse businesses who support unique customers or markets, including animal nutrition and health, bioindustrial, road safety salt and Cargill joint ventures.
Job Purpose and Impact
Join Cargill in Florø (Cargill/EWOS), one of the largest and most advanced fish feed production facilities. The plant produces high-quality, technologically advanced feed for the aquaculture industry, primarily serving salmon and rainbow trout farming, supported by modern manufacturing processes, advanced control systems, and cutting-edge equipment.
The Maintenance Manager plays a critical leadership role in delivering safe, reliable and cost-effective operations through World Class Maintenance (WCM) principles and reliability excellence. This position will lead the site's journey to a proactive, planned and reliability-centered maintenance organization. The Maintenance Manager will champion maintenance excellence, asset integrity, continuous improvement and operational discipline to maximize equipment availability, optimize maintenance costs and support sustainable production performance.
Leading a team of maintenance professionals, the Maintenance Manager will collaborate closely with Production, Engineering, EHS, contractors and regional reliability teams to establish a high-performing maintenance culture where preventive and predictive maintenance, root cause problem solving and continuous improvement are embedded in daily operations. The role requires a strong focus on safety, people development and operational excellence, while driving best practices, standardization and long-term asset reliability aligned with business objectives.
Key Accountabilities
• Lead and continuously improve the site maintenance strategy, implementing World Class Maintenance (WCM) and reliability-centered maintenance practices to drive a proactive maintenance culture and optimize asset performance.
• Ensure safe, reliable and compliant operation of critical assets, including development and execution of equipment strategies for high-hazard processes in accordance with regulatory and company standards.
• Drive maintenance excellence through performance management, utilizing KPIs, root cause analysis and continuous improvement initiatives to improve equipment reliability, availability and cost efficiency.
• Lead maintenance planning, scheduling and resource optimization, ensuring safe and effective execution of maintenance activities, effective contractor managment and alignment with production priorities.
• Partner with site, regional and global stakeholders to implement leading maintenance practices, manage maintenance budgets and support long-term asset reliability, operational performance and business objectives.
• Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
• Relevant bachelor's degree, trade certification, or equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of maintenance experience in manufacturing, process industry, or similar environments, including leadership experience.
• Experience in maintenance and reliability programs, including maintenance planning, asset management, preventive and predictive maintenance, root cause analysis (RCA), and maintenance management systems (SAP/CMMS).
• Experience collaborating with contractors and external service providers.
• Strong communication skills in English; Norwegian language skills are an advantage.
• Demonstrated ability to lead, develop and engage maintenance teams in a high-performance manufacturing environment.
Our Offer
We provide a fast paced stimulating international environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.
We welcome applications from people with disabilities and are committed to providing an inclusive, accessible recruitment process and workplace. We encourage candidates to let us know if they require any accommodations during the recruitment or interview process so we can support them appropriately.
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